Shravana Pada 4 (Cancer Navamsa)

Shravana Pada 4 at a Glance

Pada

4th of 4 — navamsa 88 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Capricorn 20°00′ – 23°20′ — 290°00′ – 293°20′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Capricorn, the whole of Shravana being inside it

Navamsa (D-9)

Cancer, ruled by Moon

Navamsa from the rashi

7th from Capricorn — a kendra, and the axis opposite the rashi

Moon in Cancer

in its own sign — the second strongest, and the steadiest

Name syllable

Gha

Moon dasha balance

none to 2 years 6 months of the 10-year period

What Pada 4 Settles About a Shravana Birth

All four padas of Shravana fall inside Capricorn, so the pada leaves the rashi alone — a Shravana native is a Capricorn native whichever quarter the Moon occupied. What pada 4 settles instead is the navamsa: Cancer, the 7th sign from Capricorn, where the other three quarters of Shravana give Aries, Taurus and Gemini. The D-9 is where the classical texts look for the strength behind a promise the rashi chart only states, which is why a Shravana pada 4 birth and a pada 3 birth are both Capricorn natives with Saturn as rashi lord and still do not read the same.

The pada is fixed by the Moon’s exact longitude, so it needs the birth time and place rather than the date: a Shravana Moon anywhere in Capricorn 20°00′ – 23°20′ is pada 4, and the Moon crosses 3°20′ in roughly five to seven hours depending on how fast it is moving. A free kundli will say pada 4 rather than just Shravana, and with it the Cancer navamsa and how much of the Moon mahadasha was left.

Cancer Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The fourth pada of Shravana is the Cancer navamsa, lorded by the Moon — the 7th sign from Capricorn, a kendra, and the axis opposite the rashi. Capricorn and Cancer are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They share a mobility — both movable — while differing in element, Capricorn being earth and Cancer water. Pada 4 is not the vargottama one and neither are the other three: Shravana has no vargottama pada at all, which it shares with 17 other nakshatras.

The Moon lords both Shravana and Cancer, so on pada 4 the nakshatra lord and the navamsa lord are the same graha and the arc gives one voice rather than two. Wherever the Moon sits in a chart, it answers for Capricorn 20°00′ – 23°20′ and for the Cancer D-9 alike — there is no second dispositor to soften or contradict it.

Where the Moon Stands in This Pada

The Moon lords Shravana, and in the Cancer navamsa the Moon is in its own sign — the second strongest, and the steadiest. That is a statement about pada 4 specifically: the lord of a nakshatra sits in a different navamsa sign in each of its four quarters, and across Shravana the grade runs from the Moon exalted in Taurus at pada 2 down to the Moon in a neutral’s sign in Aries at pada 1 — pada 4 has 1 of the four above it and 2 below.

Shravana pada 4 is one of 9 padas whose nakshatra lord holds its own navamsa. Because the Moon is both the lord of Shravana and the graha whose position defines a pada at all, the two dignity questions collapse into one here: the Moon in Cancer is in its own sign, and that is the whole answer for a Shravana pada 4 birth.

Vimshottari: The Moon Balance a Pada 4 Birth Starts With

A Moon in Shravana means life begins inside a Moon mahadasha, 10 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 4 of Shravana runs from none to 2 years 6 months remaining — the shortest of the four, and a Moon on the last minute of Shravana begins with the Moon period already spent, so the next mahadasha starts at birth — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Shravana leaves the whole 10 years open. Inside Capricorn 20°00′ – 23°20′ it takes the exact longitude to place a birth within that range, and the pada is as far as a nakshatra reading gets.

The Moon rules three of the 27 nakshatras, so Shravana shares that 10-year opening with Rohini and Hasta — and pada 4 of Shravana shares the range above with pada 4 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Moon nakshatra it is. Pada 3 of Shravana carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Moon balance a Shravana pada 4 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Mars for 7 years, then Rahu.

The Syllable Gha

A child born with the Moon in Shravana pada 4 is traditionally named from Gha. The other three quarters of Shravana give Ju for pada 1, Je for pada 2 and Jo for pada 3, which is why a naming list keyed to the nakshatra alone gets it wrong three times out of four — the syllable follows the pada, and the pada follows the longitude.

The Other Three Padas of Shravana

Shravana is Capricorn 10°00′ – 23°20′, ruled by the Moon, Deva gana, monkey yoni, Antya nadi, and pada 4 shares every one of those with the other three. What belongs to pada 4 alone is the arc, the navamsa and the syllable — Capricorn 20°00′ – 23°20′, Cancer, Gha:

The rashi column is constant on Shravana; the navamsa column is what the pada buys you.

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